Can you deliver an accessible, inclusive and engaging logo design for a new citizen science project? With a prize of £1,500 for the winning design and deadline of midnight on Sunday 9 August 2026. Find out more bit.ly/birdatlaslogo

🚨 We’re recruiting! 🚨 12‑month fixed‑term post for a senior ecological statistician with movement‑modelling expertise. The post is to build movement models for unique seabird + fish datasets, and contribute to major applied & methodological research on offshore renewable energy impacts.

This has lots of implications, perhaps most significantly for discoveries/rediscoveries without specimens e.g. bsky.app/profile/alex... these sorts of (real) images below could easily be faked in future 6/

Alexander Lees@alexanderlees.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The type series of images for the description of Ptilorrhoa urrissia, sp. nov. the "Hooded Jewel-babbler" - no type specimens collected #Ornithology

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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I had a few thoughts on the results of last years Dotterel survey that I was going to make but then realised the one glaring omission, when are Dotterel predicted to be extinct as a breeding bird in Scotland? Below line of best fit through the last four surveys - answer around 2030, in four years!

🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵

We have lift off! The first Pufflings are now leaving the Isle of May as birds are now independent. This is a big moment as they’ve never flown and not seen the sea before! Good luck :)

And that book is now published! Free here: teaching-programming.github.io/book/ Phenomenal work by the editors. Pleased to have co-authored two chapters w/ @chrissuthy.bsky.social @talom.bsky.social @chrisoldnall.bsky.social @brittneuropsych.bsky.social @colquhoun.bsky.social Rob Young & Ozan Evkaya

Dr Brittany Blankinship@brittneuropsych.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As you may or may not know, our community of coding and data educators who teach outside of traditional computer science settings has been WRITING A BOOK over the past 16 months, and this book will be launching on June 22nd! 📖🚀 📚Teaching Programming Across Disciplines

SOC has a long-standing commitment to encouraging young people to take part in Conference, recognising the valuable networking and learning opportunities it provides.Thanks to SOC Lothian Branch & an anonymous donor, 15 subsidised Conference places are available tinyurl.com/ykjh7s67 #birdingscotland

Supporting young birdwatchers to attend the SOC’s Annual Conference

This year, the Club's Lothian Branch and an anonymous donor, are offering support to help young birder enthusiasts attend the SOC's Annual Conference. The Conference, which takes place on Saturday 3 O...

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Johanna Hedlund (Lund University) and colleagues reviewed 392 papers on Odonata migration, confirming 100 migratory dragonfly and damselfly species and 85 possible migrants, including altitudinal round trips within one lifetime. doi.org/10.1002/brv.... Photo: Johanna Hedlund

Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Ten simple rules for teaching data science

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We recently published a paper looking at archiving of code and data at the BES, giving recommendations for improvements. buff.ly/jqekQBr This paper has 138 authors from 29 countries! 🌍 Read below to find out how this paper came to be👇 (1)

Data‐ and code‐archiving in the British Ecological Society journals: Present status and recommendations for future improvements

Data- and code-archiving are important components of open science, as both make research more transparent, reproducible, accountable and credible, allowing future researchers to build on previous ...

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Nice to finally visit Shetland for the first time last week! Mostly quiet bird-wise until I stumbled across a cracking Red-throated Pipit on the beach at Norwick, Unst on my last day. Other highlights were great views of Otter and some rare plants on the Keen of Hamar. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

Happy 100th birthday to 'our David' 🎂🥳🎉 “Universities, it seems to me, are the most important institution in our society bar none." Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough, Honorary Doctor of Science, 2011 🎂🥳🎉 https://ow.ly/YwKc50YWu6v #EverToExcel

🪶 How does recreational activity affect wildlife? New article led by Amber Cowans links habitat selection theory with a social-ecological systems perspective to show how recreationists and wildlife influence one another #RecreationEcology 📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/IPnVJk3

Curious about what drives transoceanic vagrancy and what it might mean for birds? Our new paper discusses these questions in the context of Hurricane Lee and the remarkable influx of American landbirds recorded in the British Isles in September 2023. Take a look: tinyurl.com/388k3mcp

The new Hotspots Descriptions on eBird is going to be a really useful resource for birders visiting birding spots they’re not familiar with. Similar approach as Wikipedia, with community-based contributions of suggested text #birdingFife share.google/mDmINs0KNoGO...

Community-sourced Hotspot Descriptions and Hotspot Groups are Here - eBird

eBird Hotspots just got even better. New wiki-style About pages and Hotspot Groups offer a richer, more collaborative way to discover birding locations around the world and make the most of every visi...

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Recently published in Austral Entomology: Louis Backstrom demonstrates how citizen science data from iNaturalist reveal substantial gaps and new insights in the distribution of Australian butterflies, including range changes across dozens of species.

Here's a great book about Australian #conservation. I was delighted to provide a quote for the cover. @justinehausheer.bsky.social takes readers into the lab and field to meet conservationists working to stop Australia's #extinction crisis, and the political inertia they're battling against.

Where to Watch Birds in Scotland launched on this day in 2019 With 1.75 million site views since then, our free app helps beginner & experienced birders alike discover the best places to see birds across Scotland. If you haven't downloaded it yet, you can do so here www.the-soc.org.uk/about-us/app

Emperor Penguin now Endangered!🐧 Our new IUCN Red List assessment reveals the shocking impact of climate change.🌍 Drastic declines and erratic changes in sea ice in Antarctica are projected to cause the Emperor Penguin population to halve by the 2080s.📉 Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/emperorpenguin

New paper out today in @austentsoc.bsky.social Austral Entomology! Analysing nearly 300,000 @inaturalist.bsky.social observations by 22,000 #citizenscience users reveals many new insights into where Australian butterflies occur. Open Access here: doi.org/10.1111/aen....

Two great postdoc opportunities with @eesaupe.bsky.social in Oxford on macroecology/extinction/conservation through a paleobiological lens

Erin E. Saupe@eesaupe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

‼️🚨 Job Alert ‼️ 🚨 Two Post Doc Opportunities: PDRA in Macroecology / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... PDRA in Extinction & Conservation / Paleobiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Any questions, please get in touch! Closing date May 1st.

What does biodiversity look like in your own backyard? That's the question we explored when our team headed to visit the ever-iconic Martha Stewart to help document the wildlife living alongside her gardens. Catch the full segment on CBS Sunday Morning: tr.ee/hTkHNx0zxJ

Ptilotus senarius hadn’t been seen since the 1960s. People thought it was extinct — until nature-enthusiast and horticulturist Aaron Bean came across it and shared an observation to iNaturalist. There, community members helped confirm what once seemed impossible: this species had survived.

A horticulturalist putting bands on birds in a remote part of QLD saw an interesting plant. He uploaded photos to a #CitizenScience app, where a Queensland Herbarium botanist saw them and recognised a plant thought to be extinct: connectsci.au/news/news-pa... @ausjbotany.bsky.social #AusJBotany

Citizen scientist re-discovers Australian plant thought extinct for nearly 60 years

A plant which was last collected 58 years ago has been rediscovered thanks to photographs presented on the citizen science platform iNaturalist. Ptilotus senarius is a small shrub found in the north of Australian state Queensland. The species was only named in 2014 after analysis of herbarium specimens from 1925...

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Thrilled to be part of this new study that aims to derive a meaningful classification of distinct and recognisable Australian terrestrial bird communities. Lead by @martinemaron.bsky.social and Hannah Fraser with many other colleagues check it out here. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A Typology of Australian Terrestrial Bird Communities

Aim Holistic measurement of the response of fauna communities to interventions requires suitable community condition metrics. However, the development of such metrics is hindered by the absence of b...

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MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...

The @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social 1992 conference was sponsored by shortbread and whiskey! We need more of this.

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Guidelines: - Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK:

Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK A practical, optional guide to help your observations integrate smoothly with the UK biological recording system This guidance is entirely optional. You...

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